to Galphin during the Revolution, petitioned Congress on behalf of the Galphin estate for compensation for services rendered as Commissioner of Indian Affairs; the Senate declined to refer the petition to committee. His estate was at dispute in Milligan v. Milledge. The estate eventually became the center of the Galphin Affair political scandal involving prominent political figures such as George W. Crawford. References 1708 births 1780 deaths 18th-century American businesspeople People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Revolution Kingdom of Ireland emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies